Re: [jamboost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-02 03:11:44

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 21:29, Eric Niebler wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > You really think it's likely that they've set up HOME and yet have
> > installed a user-config.jam that they don't want bjam to use in
> > %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%? I don't.
>
> Haha, ok. You're right. But as it so happens, this was exactly the case
> on my machine. I struggled to get bjam working the first time, and in
> the process, I scattered user-config.jam all over the place. I ended up
> with one in %HOME% and a turd user-config.jam in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
> (which I just deleted to be safe).

Not sure how much of a help that would be, but I've added a logic to print
the locations of site-config.jam and user-config.jam when the

--debug-configuration

option is specified. Probably that would help the next time somebody has the 
same problem.

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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